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Is islam a religion of peace?
PhantOS:
--- Quote from: Darryl McKoy on March 23, 2017, 08:49:24 PM ---But you see, when it doesn't support their narrative religious folk can just claim that the offenders are not real [insert religious group]s
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Yes it's clearly 10x easier to oppress people when you maintain theocracy because you have complete control over the minds of people. However, the same thing can be done without religion.
All you need is a group of people to hate and enough people to hate them. After that you've essentially seized the power. Make any mistake politically and you can pull the 'x group is at fault' card and completely reflect any responsibility.
Hell if i wanted I could create an entire campaign around how people with dimples are the devil incarnate and should be pushed out of society. Anybody who doesn't have dimples and isn't smart enough to think for themselves will let themselves be spoonfed all the hate, and since they have something to agree on with me they gain my trust. Next step is the dimple holocaust
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on March 23, 2017, 08:52:45 PM ---All you need is a group of people to hate and enough people to hate them.
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--- Quote from: Red Spy on March 23, 2017, 08:51:25 PM ---Der Juden
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Magus:
--- Quote from: Planr on March 23, 2017, 08:15:41 PM ---Well of course not all atheists are to blame, I never said they were. Atheistic thought merely provides a justification to communist dictators to do whatever they want.
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"Kill them all. God will know his own." -Arnaud Amalric, Abbot of Citeaux, leader of the crusaders during the Massacre at Beziers.
Darryl McKoy:
--- Quote from: Magus on March 23, 2017, 08:54:08 PM ---"Kill them all. God will know his own." -Arnaud Amalric, Abbot of Citeaux, leader of the crusaders during the Massacre at Beziers.
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Yeah but he wasn't a real christian because his interpretation of the book is different to that of Planrs.
The moral code is absolute, just so long as your subjective interpretation is consistent with theirs.
Magus:
--- Quote from: Darryl McKoy on March 23, 2017, 08:57:15 PM ---Yeah but he wasn't a real christian because his interpretation of the book is different to that of Planrs.
The moral code is absolute, just so long as your subjective interpretation is consistent with theirs.
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Even if he wasn't a "real christian", he was using his beliefs to justify an atrocity.